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I jar contains 5 green erasers, 2 striped erasers, 4 pink erasers, and 3 white erasers, you select an eraser at random. What is probability that it’s not pink.
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I jar contains 5 green erasers, 2 striped erasers, 4 pink erasers, and 3 white erasers, you select an eraser at random. What is probability that it’s not pink.

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There are 14 erasers in the jar all together, and 10 of them are not pink.

The probability of picking a not-pink one is

10/14 or 5/7 or 0.0.7143... or 71.43% .
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